There's no shortage of charming mountain towns nestled in the Great Smoky Mountains, offering the perfect setting for an ...

Outside’s national parks columnist braved America’s busiest national park before a coalition of local governments and ...

The Cades Cove Preservation Association, an organization dedicated to preserving the history and heritage of Cades Cove, will hold its monthly Historical Walk and Talk on Tuesday, Oct. 14. According ...

For a family-friendly event filled with history, heritage, authors and vendors, visit Cades Cove Preservation Association’s Cades Cove Family Harvest Festival and Homecoming on Friday, Oct. 3, and ...

Start your engines Raleigh, it’s time to chase the Fall across North Carolina on an Autumnal getaway from Raleigh! In our opinion, NC has some of the best places in the USA to visit for leaf peeping, ...

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An amusing bear sighting ended up shelving Ayla’s long-awaited Easter plans. "I was stuck in traffic at Cades Cove for two hours and missed Easter dinner with family because of this bear sleeping in a ...

Great Smoky is rich in wildlife, ranging from humongous “hellbenders” (a type of salamander) and wild hogs to 500-pound (227-kg) black bears and heavily anterled elk that resulted from a recovery ...

CADES COVE, Tenn. (WATE) — Cades Cove‘s vehicle-free Wednesdays will start in June instead of May this year, the National Park Service announced. In previous years, vehicle-free Wednesdays started in ...

GATLINBURG, Tennessee — Great Smoky Mountains National Park will remove hazard trees in Cades Cove Jan. 20-Jan. 24. This includes removing brush from the side of the road to keep vegetation from ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — Cades Cove Loop Road will be closed to visitors for another week while the National Park Service removes “hazard trees.” The road initially closed from January 20-24. It ...

Surrounded by mountains, Cades Cove is an isolated, fertile valley. An 11-mile, one-way loop road surrounds the valley and is one of the best places in the park to view wildlife. Once a hunting ground ...